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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Oh, right, new school year. University students: the secret to success is GO THE FUCK TO BED, GO THE FUCK TO CLASS, DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK and to get HELP AND SUPPORT from people who want you to succeed if you find yourself neglecting any of these, and there are many more such people than you may think!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
steffo@f.starshard.space ("Steffo") wrote:

didn't pyproject.toml have a section dedicated to installing man pages, like [project.scripts] does for executables?

am i misremembering or thinking of a different thing?

#Python

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hzulla@infosec.exchange ("Hanno Zulla") wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117229170396354993

At my kid's school parents' assembly this week, I spoke out against the uncritical use of generative AI in the classroom. Another parent disagreed and said that it's "important to point out the positive aspects" of the new technology for the workplace, "as an example, I don't have to pay that expensive graphics designer anymore to do my job."

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mpirnat@mas.to ("Mike Pirnat") wrote:

Hey #LazyWeb pals, I’m in the market for a #DigitalOcean alternative for my hobby projects. I’m looking for:

- can automatically deploy a Dockerized app when I push changes to its repo
- Postgres that I don’t have to manage (eg for updates, backups) and can be shared between multiple smol web apps
- easy setup / minimal sorcery
- approximately same price or less; anything above $50/mo is off the table

Please enjoy an advance helping of gratitude for your advice on this matter. :ablobcatheart:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
clasticartistic@sunny.garden ("Clastic Artistic") wrote:

RE: https://sunny.garden/@clasticartistic/114110378501200706

Seeing as my most famous post on the site below has been getting a little traction again. Just let everyone know, my Scanned Texture packs are currently on sale.

I've only had one sale on itch since the end of May so anything is appreciated!
https://itch.io/s/198768/scanned-textures-augsepoct-sale

#sale #textures #gamedev #art

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

One day we're going to invent the technology for walls to be straight and plum.

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
miah@hachyderm.io ("Miah Johnson") wrote:

I just lost my job today, so here we go..

I'm a ~30 years Sysadmin/DevOps/Server Shepard/Graybeard whatever its called now UNIX nerd.

Looking for work doing UNIX'y stuff. I mostly do automation, and have avoided working with AI and Kubernetes (though I have a bit of k8s experience at two jobs, I just prefer "the old way")

Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Ansible, Shell scripts, etc.

I've built Linux distributions, and automation tools. Having worked at Redhat, TurboLinux, Penguin Computing, Salesforce, and Chef.

Built and maintained monitoring systems, checks, and lived the on-call life.

Built and managed CI systems, and Pipelines.

I've written and maintained software in Ruby, Python, and Shell. I've dabbled in just about every other programming language you'll find on a UNIX system.

I have spent a lot of time with *BSD, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux, and to a lesser extent HPUX, and AIX.

If its sysadmin work on a UNIX, I've likely done it.

Remote only / West Michigan maybe / not willing to relocate

#getfedihired #unix #linux

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Two Cat updates!

> At Linkedin's Talent Connect in NYC, I shall be leading a lively & rigorous talk+workshop about environments that actually help technology workers thrive and problem-solve. We will also be featuring my book The Psychology of Software Teams!

You may be saying "Cat this is fediverse!! What relevance does this have to me?!" But guess what if you work at a large org YOUR org might be sending folks to this conf. Tell them! We can get them on the good psychology train!

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
yossarian@infosec.exchange wrote:

this is a great improvement: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-09-10-control-github-actions-cache-access-with-cache-mode/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
datarama@hachyderm.io wrote:

Early on after my workplace started requiring LLM usage, I made the decision that I wasn't willing to compromise on quality. I am a programmer. I want to write good code. I do not want to throw slop at either my colleagues or the outside world, ever. And I still haven't: I've stood firm on writing everything I actually commit myself. (I have *reviewed* thousands and thousands of lines of slop at this point; some of it I'm sure I was the first human being to ever lay eyes on).

I'm pretty sure I've actually become *slower* with LLM assistance. That's because of aforementioned observation about trivial tasks - an LLM can bring the time-and-tedium cost of those from "I'll do that tomorrow" down to "I'll just do it now" - which, in practice, often means that the time spent goes from zero to nonzero (because, in the words of a Black Sabbath lyric*: "live for today, tomorrow never comes"). But this isn't bad: It means more edge cases get handled. And because I insist on writing the code myself, sometimes I discover a pattern that I can fruitfully make an abstraction out of. At least that's how I've tried to use LLMs without sacrificing quality. (And once again, I've found that comparatively tiny and "stupid" models are just as good at this sort of thing as the big ones. Ironically, the heavily engagement-tuned big ones are *worse*). But it's a pretty intense way of working: I find myself "flitting around" dealing with large amounts of trivia, which is cognitively more taxing.

Anyway, I've talked to my manager, and he's OK with me not going all-in on "agentic" development, so it seems I can retain my sanity for a bit longer.

*) "Die Young". I will die on this hill: The Dio era was not as bad as everyone pretends.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay, i've got mutability and error handling in the monadic style outside of IO. who says FP langs have to be pure?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I do dearly love the Berzerkeley campus

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

The current thinking about how to solve this dilemma is to have LLMs write even more code, which is a bit like saying you are going to eat your way out of your weight problem

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

It's unsurprising that software only ever seems to get worse, because the way you increase the quality of the output of a process is by identifying failure-prone areas and slowly squeezing them out one by one. And that's impossible to do in an environment where the Year Zero comes twice a decade. Every time you throw out your whole stack you are throwing out all the things you learned the hard way about the old one

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I don't even work on mobile apps, I have no strong opinions about native apps versus React Native. I'm just thinking about all the people who six years ago were told by their bosses that React Native was the future and they had to bet their entire lives on it, and today are being told by their bosses that React Native sucks and needs to be purged with fire

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

It is exhausting to work in an industry where it is considered normal to throw out your entire toolset every six years and do everything the opposite way

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Berzerkeley California

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

RE: https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/117242996935349442

This rules, go #Guile!

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:

#Guile now requires contributors to agree to a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) and rejects code authored or co-authored by an LLM 👇
https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/src/commit/b52c48a850765ba93d90fa35fbd3eed8356222a2/HACKING#L134-L156

Kudos to Olivier Dion for making it happen!

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

and it is fucking rich that the response to “if the cops want to prove you can take a picture they can” is a bunch of waffle about journalists and evidence and deepfakes

nobody engaged with the point that cops can use this to de-anonymize and incriminate you

in your world do journalists never get arrested? is the only form of evidence collected done by cops and not, say, people being hunted by the state? are you really comfortable with having a durable, external piece of metadata associated with your unique phone, location at a particular time, and content of a photo?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

older urban areas have a wonderful mix of architectures

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:

Added support for uxn device calls to Heol Lisp so that I can do Varvara bindings. Here's my first pixel for #lispGameJam!
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/heol.html
#uxn

Attachments:

• gifv: A lisp virtual machine running on uxn.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yes!

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
Damselfly@blackqueer.life ("Not Your Damsel") wrote:

Kinda wild how many techbros suddenly started turning fascist recently.

It almost seems like they might have been the whole time. That can’t be right, tho. Because I’m sure women of color would have pointed it out if that were the case.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

@sackofbones See, this is exactly what I'm talking about when I say that I'm worried about people not taking it seriously enough. A collection of shitty dotfiles doesn't need millions of dollars. But Omarchy is getting that money, and they're using it to organize. Now use your imagination to think about how a group of fascists might use a huge pile of money to influence modern software. If you're not concerned, you should be.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
citizen428@chaos.social ("Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭") wrote:

Let's start with Adam (@neatnik). Not only does he build great and fun projects like omg.lol, dns.kitchen, or neato.pub, but he also runs regular donation drives:

https://home.omg.lol/giving

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I have been away a long time

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know.

https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai%5Fpolicy.html

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

ahahaahaha oh.

wow.

this is not satire. or rather, it is a case where reality is better at ironic ridicule to provoke change than satirists are.

https://www.404media.co/doctor-doom-thanked-seattle-for-all-the-surveillance-cameras/

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

every few days there's a new high-minded article about how no-one reads books anymore and especially not the Youths, and none of them seem to be aware that the Youths are out here reading and writing one-million-word online fics that they simply don't talk to the adults about because the adults scorn them as not "real" books